Bihar’s Gaighat Assembly constituency has elected Niranjan Roy of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in the 2020 Assembly election. He secured 32.92% of the votes and defeated his nearest rival, Maheshwar Prasad Yadav of the Janata Dal (United).

The seat, one of Bihar’s 243 assembly
constituencies, falls under the Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha constituency.

The Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha
seat is currently held by BJP’s Ajay Nishad, who defeated Raj Bhusan Chaudhary
of the Vikassheel Insan Party (VInP).

The Gaighat Assembly
constituency is an unreserved seat, that has elected RJD’s candidate in both,
2005 and 2015. In 2010, it elected Veena Devi of the BJP, who was defeated by
RJD’s Maheshwar Prasad Yadav in 2015.

Here are a few details about
the Gaighat Assembly seat

Name of the assembly
constituency, district:
Gaighat, Muzaffarpur district

Lok Sabha constituency:
Muzaffarpur

Polling date: November 7

2020 candidates: Maheshwar Prasad Yadav (JD(U)), Niranjan Roy (RJD)

2020 winner: Niranjan Roy (RJD)

2020 runner up: Maheshwar Prasad Yadav (JD(U))

Sitting MLA, party:
Maheshwar Prasad Yadav, RJD

2015 candidates: Maheshwar Prasad Yadav (RJD), Veena Devi (BJP), Ashok Kumar Singh (IND)  

Winning margin in
2015: 
3,501 votes (2.14%)

Runner up name, party: Veena
Devi, BJP

Number of voters in 2015: 165,066

Percentage of votes polled
in 2015:
57.44%

Number of women voters in
2015:
86,490

Number of polling booths in
2015:
271